A multicenter, retrospective comparison of pregnancy outcomes between groups of preterm labor nulliparous mothers treated with atosiban vs. ritodrine in singleton and multiple pregnancies.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of atosiban and ritodrine in pregnant women who were hospitalized for threatened preterm labor (TPL).

Materials And Methods: Diagnosis records of preterm labor and subsequent pregnancy-related records and medical records of newborns were extracted from the Clinical Data Warehouse of the Catholic Medical Center's affiliated hospital. Since 2009, cases of preterm labor diagnosed before 34 weeks of pregnancy for first-time mothers who delivered at any one of three hospitals and who received drug treatment for more than 2 days to delay delivery were included in the dataset.

Optimizing the Diagnostic Strategy to Identify Genetic Abnormalities in Miscarriage.

Introduction: The single most common cause of miscarriage is genetic abnormality.

Objective: We conducted a prospective cohort study to compare the performance of conventional karyotyping and chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) using array comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) and single nucleotide polymorphism array (SNP-array) to identify genetic abnormalities in miscarriage specimens.

Methods: A total of 63 miscarriage specimens were included.

Laparoscopic transabdominal cervical cerclage: Case report of a woman without exocervix at 11 weeks gestation.

Cervical incompetence is characterized by painless dilatation of the incompetent cervix and results in miscarriages and preterm delivery during second trimester. We report a 25-year-old patient, gravid 2, para 1, at 11 weeks' gestation with the diagnosis of cervical incompetence, in whom transvaginal cerclage was not technically possible and laparoscopic cervical cerclage was performed successfully. There were no operative or immediate postoperative complications.